Sources and link to book by Rupert Glasgow:sites.google.com/view/sources-consciousness

Consciousness is perhaps the biggest riddle in nature. In the first part of this three part video series, we explore the origins of consciousness and take a closer look on how unaware things became aware.

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I got a question to see if Kurzgesagt could possibly make a video about this. So, all of things that these videos are saying is true, however there is something lacking. Dismissing religion simply as a construct brought up because humanity was oblivious to the information known today is a common theme. However, it would be interesting to see a video explaining the possibility of religion due to the fact of the lack of information we still own as a species. Such lack of information would include our limited perspective of dimensions (4th dimension...). Also, our lack of vision with a small degree of vision on the electromagnetic spectrum, and lack of 95% of what happens in the universe ( anti-matter, energy, etc.). Also explaining why humans are willing to die for causes they believe in such as religion, country, family( even though this goes against animals basic mechanics). I’m not talking from a religious perspective but, a scientific perspective to see get information and spread information on the possibility that we simply just don’t know about an ultimate creator or not. It would be awesome to see this if you guys can put something out there and I’m a big fan of your videos.

But the thing is the only way u can explain it otherwise u will think its becuse of intelligence that we become consiouness which is true but not consiousness was Definetly not a evolutionary type of thing that happend for the sake of happening like life.

God equipped us with all "Senses" and wisdom to communicate and realize the outer and our inner worlds. It is the the "Designer's Work" Bro....higly sophisticated ...and Complete...with "Irreducable Complexity"......Come out of the Darwin's mythical postulations...he didn't even know about the structure of a cell...lol!!

Imagine we could put a million of electrodes into all places of our brain and connect them to a decoder and allow other people send a wireless signal into the decoder and activate various neurons all around our brain (with the possibility of disabling this access function). That is language. The wireless signal is acoustic. The decoder is the language cortex.

I think to understand consciousness, we have to follow reasoning without prejudices. Surprosingly, consciousness is acally a word. It has a relationship to the language cortex. We ask "are you conscious of X"? Example: are you conscious of your blood sodium level or heart beat? The answer is no. Your body knows it very well and controls tightly, but there is no pathway how to reroute that information into your language cortex. Consciousness is the set of percepts that can be queried inside the brain and rerouted to language cortex or other part of brain that is able to transmit information outside the body - by speech, gesture, facial expression etc. When you sleep you can talk about your dreama later but cannot talk about what was going in your head during deep sleep. Therefore you are conscious of dreams, but not of deep sleep. Your visual cortex perceives thousands of edges and corners every second but you are not conscious of them. You can reroute them into your language cortex on demand and become conscious of them. Example: "how many lines does my lower eyelid form?"

Never mind this video its misleading I know the brain has enough intlegence to survive honeslty ok having consiouness helps us make our food come to us which makes ourwork as an intelligent species easy but this video does not state why we have consiouness only the brain fictions like memory and such smh😂

We make our own rules as to what consciousness is and then remain perplexed when faced with the inevitable contradictions that arise from that assumption. Consciousness is simply the capacity for change, therefore everything in timespace is conscious. The ability to direct change is a result of complexity of design only. For example, if you give a monkey and a human a relatively simple puzzle, the monkey will complete the task quicker than the human and with less errors. This is because of the complexity of our nervous system by comparison, not because the monkey is smarter or has more consciousness. Some animals can grow back whole limbs, tails or heads, because of a lack of complexity, so the error count in cell regrowth is much lower. We channel a wider band of the consciousness spectrum than animals, which creates interference patterns that we call thought and emotion which give us the impression of free will.

The problem, that is. As you said... Animals can anticipate the future, and choose whether to eat the less or the more. Means its consciousness does not have any feelings of impatience, not a true consciousness. Like the worm moving when hungry, and when not.. it does not move. It feels like consciousness is similar to a basic IF statement, switch cases, and while/for loops.

If you had created a robot with senses, and pain and program it similar to the worm consciousness. Would it do the same?